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I bet you could get paid to present a talk on this. Lots of Mormons would be interested.

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Can you estimate error bars due to imperfect g loadings of wordsum?

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Nice paper.

Just eyeballing the fertility rates in deep red states (except Utah!) I’m skeptical that this would be the case: “ perhaps if one used a more accurate index based on, say, 10 questions, one would find something even stronger, maybe even a reversal for the conservatives.”

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As I commented on the Youtube video, there are two problems with your argument. The first is that greater conservative fertility has not translated into more societal conservatism due to liberal conversion, at least so far, and second is that the Third World, much more conservative and religious than the First World, appears to have more dysgenic fertility than the First World, and especially than the Nordics who appear to have the less dysgenic fertility.

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Mormons are a cult, but yes, they are conservative. The Christian homeschooled see the world as it is and will make the appropriate changes.

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Yeah, more on welfare at the state's expense. That's smart.

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No axis for geographic location of positive versus negative intellectual results? One would think states with environments like Arizona and Utah, would have better outcomes than gloomy weather places like Washington state or Minnesota, based on positive sunshine-vitamin D stimulation effects alone. Also, no factors for rural versus metropolitan locations?

Clearly, that would complicate, and maybe obfuscate, the methodology and results. After all, these models may be no better than the garbage in, garbage out, climate change guesstimates. Correlation is not causation. It may be easier and more clear to say, that "the Lord works in mysterious ways."

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